Friday

Cairo, Holy Friday of 2010

On a street of Cairo, near to Giza

It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man’s naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition. I listened, I looked round me, but I could hear nothing, nor see anything. (Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe)